Louis Lanzano/The Assoicated PressOscar winning songwriter and director Joseph Brooks is led by police in handcuffs Tuesday in New York. Brooks has been charged with rape and sexual assault.

New York City investigators said Academy-Award winning songwriter Joseph Brooks placed advertisements on Craigslist that were specially targeted to run in the Pacific Northwest, as well as in Florida and California, seeking women who likely were not familiar with the New York City area.

This way, the prospective victims would be more likely to follow his plans, as he paid for their flights to New York, and arranged to have his assistant pick them up and drive them directly to Brooks East Side apartment, where he's accused of sexually assaulting them.

The women were lured to Brooks apartment under the guise of auditioning for a movie role, then he used wine to incapacitate and assault them, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said at a news conference.

Alicia Maxey Greene, a spokeswoman for the district attorney, said Wednesday that investigators identified two victims from the Portland area, and seven others from Washington state.

Brooks assistant, Shawni Lucier, 42, of Federal Way, Wash., was indicted on charges of criminal facilitation. Lucier is accused of assisting Brooks by soliciting and arranging the victims meetings with Brooks, aware that her boss was sexually assaulting the women he was purportedly auditioning, according to a news release.

Brooks, who turned in his passport following his arrest, will be back in court tomorrow. He has until 10 a.m. Thursday to post bail, which is either $250,000 in cash or a $500,000 fully-secured bond.